Monday, February 6th, 2006
Google Maps Mashup for Bus Routes
Category: Ajax, Google
, Mapping
Take one part Google Maps, add in one part GPS technology, combine with a little bit of inventiveness and you’ll get one of the cooler (and more useful) little Ajax-enabled sites that I’ve seen in a while – Mapping out the busses on their routes around the University of Michiagan.
The system grabs the GPS data for each of the buses on their routes and combines that with the mapping technology that Google offers to provide an interactive, easy-to-read map of their current locations. They’re seperated out with colors, showing the types of each of the lines, and the data below the map updates in real-time, same as the bus images.
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This is where I see Google making a ton of money on overlayed advertising eventually. Imagine location updates for marathons, iron mans or other forms of sports races.
Seguimiento de autobuses con Ajax y GoogleMaps
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Some designer could contribute a bus graphic.. i mean, it doesn’t really look like a bus lol
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i just want to note that Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ has been doing this for almost a decade w/java.
http://www.whereismybus.com
it is currently being revamped for web2.0.
[…] Veo en Ajaxian una aplicación que usa el API de GoogleMaps que me parece realmente útil. En la Universidad de Michigan realizan un seguimiento por GPS de los autobuses que dan servicio al campus universitario y trasladan las coordenadas de posición de los mismos a un mapa mediante el API de GoogleMaps. Y todo ello, por supuesto, en tiempo real […]